NASA's Hubble studied 37 nearby dwarf galaxies and found they kept an average of just 11% of the oxygen made by their st

What are dwarf galaxies?

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way

Where does oxygen in space come from?

Supernova remnant SNR E0519-69.0 in the Large Magellanic Cloud

The case of the missing oxygen

Where did the oxygen go?

Why does this discovery matter?

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